They gave seven tips on how to prevent from getting fired due to your social media outbursts. They were: Think before you post, be picky about who you friend, do it on your own time and computer, watch what you post at home, keep the dialogue positive, figure out privacy settings, and learn your employee rights.
Although I do think these tips are helpful and do not think people should be airing all of their dirty laundry through there social media, it worries me that companies have the right to fire you over a personal website. I am not one for sharing all my dirty details over the internet but I do think I deserve the right to have privacy outside of the work place. I do not think employers should have the right to fire you over something that is not a work related site. They should be able to have access to it but only with the persons consent and they should not have the right to fire someone over the contents of their site.
After all it is personal and should not have any link to work and the work atmosphere.
I completely agree with your final thought, that social networking sites such as facebook should not be used as a reference for how the individual will perform in their work. After all, I'm sure their bosses don't all carry spotless records- they just didn't grow up in the web 2.0 generations where most everyone has these sites.
ReplyDeleteI agree that employers and jobs shouldn't use Facebook to determine whether to hire, keep, or fire and employee. I do believe that people should keep their facebooks clean though. When family and close friends to my family added me on Facebook, I stopped cursing as much, and posted more positive statuses rather than negative ones. Adding them made me clean up my act, which is a good thing, but people are persistent. Employers can look for the tiniest details as enough "evidence" to judge your character. People can make assumptions about you based on your friends, who you associate with, what you post, etc. A big problem is how do people know that their internet persona is why they didn't make it to the interview process or why they didn't receive that call back? It's ridiculous how something that started off as a small network between friends has morphed into something for large business and companies to look to for "information.
ReplyDeleteOne of my good friends got fired because he complained about the rough day he had at work through facebook!
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